The Brisbane Burundian community is drumming up interest in their culture and heritage. Funding from DIAC's Diverse Australia program helped showcase spectacular drumming and dance performances by Brisbane’s Burundian community at their inaugural festival in Annerley earlier this year. Burundi is a land-locked African country bordered by Tanzania, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since 1993, hundreds of thousands of Burundians have been killed in ethnic violence or have fled to refugee camps. Queensland’s Burundian community has primarily chosen to settle in Brisbane’s south side in suburbs like Annerley and Greenslopes as well as in the Logan area. “The community began with about 30 people in 2001. Now, in 2009, more than 800 Burundians call Queensland their home and many are now proud Australian citizens.